névé

[ ney-vey ]

/ neɪˈveɪ /

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noun

granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.

a field of such snow.

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Also called firn, old snow .

Origin of névé

1850–55; <Franco-Provençal <Vulgar Latin *nivātum, noun use of neuter of Latin nivātus snow-cooled, equivalent to niv- (stem of nixsnow) + -ātus-ate¹

Words nearby névé

Nev., Neva, Nevada, Nevadan, Nevado del Ruiz, névé, Nevelson, never, never a dull moment, never-ending, never fear

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How to use névé in a sentence

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I noticed that Don repeated the line "I have to get back to work" to both Megan and Neve.
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He tells possible Angel of Death Neve Campbell, “I fly a lot.”
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In order to cut snow, neve or ice to pile on the flounce, a pick and spade had to be included in the sledging equip meet.
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Those made of mountain-ash had the advantage of being extremely light, but the runners wore out quickly on ice and hard neve.
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In the evening a field of neve was reached and we felt more placid after the anxiety of the preceding hours.
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We stumbled over unseen ridges of the hard neve, our gaze straining forward.
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At the top of one ridge the snow merged into neve split into small crevasses, nine inches wide and four or five yards apart.
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British Dictionary definitions for névé

névé

/ (ˈnɛveɪ) /

noun

Also called: firn a mass of porous ice, formed from snow, that has not yet become frozen into glacier ice

a snowfield at the head of a glacier that becomes transformed into ice

Word Origin for névé

C19: from Swiss French névé glacier, from Late Latin nivātus snow-cooled, from nix snow

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for névé

névé

[ nā-vā′ ]

The upper part of a glacier, consisting of hardened snow.

The granular snow typically found in such a field.